French-Italian photographer and journalist, Jean-Marc Caimi works as a freelance for Redux Pictures. His pictures mostly cover humanitarian and social topics. In parallel, his career follows a series of intimate and more personal projects.
His latest works include stories about consequences over people and environment of pollution in contaminated areas in Italy, religious pilgrimages in the era of Pope Francis, the veterans of the war in Libya, the human rights violation in Azerbaijan, the refugees from North Africa in Lampedusa, the crisis in Greece, the Zimbabwean refugees illegally crossing the South African border in search of a new life and many others.
His reportages have been published worldwide in magazines and newspapers such as Time (International edition), Newsweek, ElleMen (China), The Sunday Times (UK), Le Monde Diplomatique (France, Italy), Internazionale, Il Manifesto (Italy), Panorama Economy (Italy), A-Magazinet (Sweden), Chatelaine (Canada), Taz (Germany), XL Repubblica (Italy), Private (Italy), Aorta (Poland).
He won the 2011 Ivrea Photo Festival, was short listed for the World Photography Award 2009. He has been selected and exhibited in the 2013 Delhi photo festival, won multiple prizes and exhibited at the 2013 PAA awards in Czech Republic, included for two years consecutively (2012/13) in the American Photography prize catalogue, He won the “Biennale di Videofotografia” in Alessandria (Turin), where his work where showcased. He has been exhibited during the Format Festival in Derby (UK), at the festival Entre Margens in Portugal and in Braga at the Encontros da Imagem with the personal project "Daily Bread", in France at the Mairie of 13me in Paris with "Urban Tiles, the new social housing in Rome", in London At The Tavistock Clinic Gallery with "Exodus, displaced people of Somalia", in Rome for the Festival Internazionale di Fotografia with "Track 1, the ghosts of train stations", in Capalbio, Tuscany with "Land, Freedom and Mafia".
He is the didactic director of a photography course dedicated to refugees and migrants living in Rome.
Exhibition opening 25 June 2015 | h.18.30 | Cascina Farsetti | Rome
Within the frame of the seventh edition of the “Cascina Farsetti” photo festival, CSF Adams presents Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni's exhibition “Forcella”. The exhibition is composed of a selection of 40 black and white analog photographs shot in Forcella, Naples, focusing on the ordinary and extraordinary daily lives of the locals. The work shows an intimate proximity with the subjects photographed, who appear free from any inhibition in front of the camera.
The authors explain:
"Forcella is stabbed into the deepest guts of Naples. It's one of the oldest and small neighborhood of the city, known as the home to the most violent and fierce mafia gangs. In Forcella, time is suspended, frozen in a undef...
Daily Bread is a solo exhibition by French-Italian photographer Jean-Marc Caimi. Widely recognized for his work as a photojournalist, Caimi has focused on many humanitarian and social issues, including the anti-government demonstrations in Ukraine, the veterans of the war in Libya, and the financial crisis in Greece. In Daily Bread we have an opportunity to see another kind of picture-making from this highly acclaimed photographer. In his compelling new body of work, rather than committing his lens to showing the newsworthy reality of other people, Caimi seeks to represent the essence of his own existence and rites of passage.
“Sex, food, nature, the city where I live, my son, relationships, friends, family, even fleeting encounters, these moments enrich me as a human being. They are archetypal, belongi...
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) searches out deprivation, social injustice, and need—then works to eliminate them. ADRA invests in the potential of individuals through advocacy, supporting families, promoting health, providing food and water, establishing livelihoods, and responding to emergencies. ADRA, under the administration of UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees), is implementing a cutting edge psychological support project in the camps of Kharaz and Basateen.
The project, coordinated by Dr Renos Papadopoulos, director of the Essex (UK) based Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees, is aimed to guarantee direct psychological counseling to deeply traumatized refugees and to train other refugees and local NGOs staff to assist newcomers in coping with mental problems relat...